About InGOS

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InGOS is an EU FP7 funded Integrating Activity (IA) project, supporting the integration of and access to existing national research infrastructures, targeted at improving and extending the European observation capacity for non-CO2 greenhouse gases. The project will run from October 2011 until December 2015 and is coordinated by ECN in the Netherlands, and involves 38 partners from 16 countries. InGOS addresses the big need to support and integrate the observing capacity of Europe for non-CO2 greenhouse gases. The emissions of these gases are very uncertain and it is unknown how future climate change will feedback into these (mainly land use coupled) emissions. The infrastructure project works on standardizing the measurements, strengthening the existing observation sites into supersites, capacity building in new member states, and prepares for integration of the network with other networks already in place or currently being set up (e.g. ICOS, the carbon equivalent of InGOS). Attribution of source categories by using advanced isotope techniques and data-assimilation methods using high resolution transport model is an integral part of the network to allow design and evaluation of the measurements and will link the network to remote sensing data and bottom up inventories.

News

Group photo of the Conference participants

– InGOS International Conference:From 21 to 24 September 2015 the final InGOS project meeting and the InGOS International Scientific Conference took place in Utrecht. Meeting and Conference were both very successful and great science from within and outside InGOS was presented. The meeting also generated quite some media attention on national radio and the newspapers. UU released an press release on the conference: Read more…

– Marine emissions of N2O: the contribution of the Peruvian upwelling is higher than previously known. Read more…

– The future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research: The National Research Council´s Committee on The Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research invites for input on topics i.e.: current and future infrastructure or community capabilities, such as measurements technologies, models, observational platforms, or other infrastructure investments. Read more…

This project meeting was a big success and showed that InGOS is making big progress! 91 registered participants contributed to the discussions and presented the work from the previous reporting period. Since it started in 2011 InGOS already has lead to 40 peer reviewed publications and more than 70 posters and presentations at conferences. These numbers are still growing fast.

– new UNEP/WMO Ozone Assessment: Several scientists of the InGOS network were involved in the new Assessment for Decision-Makers. Findings of the new UNEP/WMO Ozone Assessment were presented at the 2nd Periodic Project Meeting.

– New gases attack ozone layer: A recent article produced by researchers from UEA, MPI, EMPA and UU within InGOS appeared in Nature Geoscience and attracts a lot of attention from the press. Read more…

– a N2O soil chamber comparison campaign will be started in June 2014. Registration deadline is 7 March 2014. Read more …